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Week of February 14, 2016

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Monday, February 15
9:00 am - 6:00 pm iCal icon
Tuesday, February 16
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
  • Prashant K. Jain, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Optimizing Electromagnetic Follow-up of LIGO-Virgo Events
  • Hsin-Yu Chen, Physics, University of Chicago,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The topological sectors in gauge theories. The deSitter vacuum during inflationary and dark Energy phases.
  • Ariel Zhitnitsky, University of British Columbia,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
  • Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Unmasking the Neutrino: The Standard Model and Beyond
  • Diana Parno, University of Washington,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
AGN Host Galaxies, Fueling, and Feedback to z ~ 2
  • Prof. Alison Coil, UCSD,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
The Arrow of Time
  • Jurg Frohlich, Prof. Dr., Physics, IAS and ETH Z¨urich,
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Wednesday, February 17
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT)
  • Barak Dayan, Senior Scientist, Quantum Optics Group, Weizmann Institute of Science,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Effective Dynamics in Quantum Theory
  • Juerg Froehlich, Professor, Physics, ETH Zurich and IAS Princeton,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT)
  • Barak Dayan, Senior Scientist, Quantum Optics Group, Weizmann Institute of Science,
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3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Noncommutative Rational Surfaces and Special Functions
  • Eric Rains, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
New frontiers in Cosmology
  • Yacine Ali-Haimoud, John Hopkins,
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4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Analysis on Fractal Manifolds and Noncommutative Geometry: A Tale of Metrics, Hausdorff Measures and Geodesics
  • Michel Lapidus, Professor of Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, and of Computer Science and Engineering, UCR,
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Thursday, February 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
  • Prof. Simon White, MPA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Fundamental Lessons From String Theory
  • Cumrun Vafa, Donner Professor of Science and Professor of Physics, Harvard University,
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Friday, February 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Classical and Quantum Black Hole Hair
  • Dieter Luest, LMU,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and M-Theory
  • Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
EFT of large scale structure, symmetries and constraints
  • Mehrdad Mirbabayi, IAS Scholar, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS),
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms
  • Hannah Price, Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, INO-CNR BEC Center, Università di Trento in Italy,
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
An Archaeological Road Trip with the Keck Telescope
  • Evan Kirby, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Caltech,
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Saturday, February 20
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